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THE MAKTAB PROJECT and Kashmir about 20. In addition to the 41 in Indonesia, there are another 91 Maktabs with about 8000 pupils. There is the immediate threat of these 91 Maktabs collapsing and closing down. Some years ago we convinced an Australian Muslim who has settled in Indonesia, about the incumbent need for the Maktab Project. This sincere brother then embarked on this struggle and succeeded to establish 91 Maktabs in remote Indonesian villages. He has made the effort to sustain these 91 Maktabs. He assumed responsibility to raise the funds necessary for the sustainment of these 91 Maktabs. He has been recently arrested by the Indonesian authorities and is presently in jail. There is therefore the urgent and imperative need for us to step into the vacuum and sustain these Maktabs. In this crisis we feel that it is the incumbent duty of all Muslims, especially the affluent, to assist lavishly, generously and purely for the Sake of Allah Ta’ala. Our project is not like building a lavish Musjid or Madrasah building. It is a Project of huts spanning the entire Muslim World. It is a Project affecting the lives of tens of thousands of Muslim Children. It is a Project with which every Muslim should be incumbently linked. Our Project is not a local jamaat programme. It is the concern of the Ummah. It costs only about R500 or R600 per month to operate a Maktab. About R6000 a year. This small sum serves to save the Imaan of a 100 or even more children. To operate a Madrasah for a 100 in South Africa, a million rand is required. But for a paltry R6000 a year, a whole Madrasah can be sustained. Think of the Thawaab-e-Jaariyah, the wonderful Capital for the Aakhirah a man can establish by committing himself to sustain a Maktab.
It is our hope and Dua that there will step forward a sufficient number of Muslims in this country to assume full responsibility for the Maktabs. We are sure that there are many affluent Muslims who can sustain several Maktabs. There are many families who can take responsibility for a number of Maktabs. By giving us such a commitment, we can continue rapidly to expand and cover more territory opening more and more Maktabs.
We should emphasise here that the kuffaar have seen the worth of these Maktabs for the survival of Islam. Hence schemes are afoot to thwart us in our operations. Kuffaar exercising pressure on Muslim governments are endeavoring their best to create obstacles in our path to thwart this Waajib Struggle. In these circumstances we can safely and confidently claim that it is cruel for Muslims to respond with apathy and remain idle observers while the attack against the Ummnah continues unabated on all fronts. It is our fervant dua that Allah Ta’ala opens your breast and inspires you with the urgency and concern to understand what is happening around us so that you respond effectively and become an active participant in this noble and incumbent Jihad to save the children of Islam from the cauldron of kufr into which they are being sucked and cast. DUROOD SHAREEF In all our Maktabs in Bangladesh and Pakistan every pupil recite 100 times Durood Shareef just before the Maktab ends for the day. In a Maktab of 100 pupils, Durood is recited 10,000 times daily. That means that the pupils recite Durood on our Nabi Muhammad (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) almost quarter million times every month in a Maktab of 100 pupils. This is about three million times a year in a single Maktab. A Maktab with 50 pupils will recite half this number. Imagine the Thawaab which the sponsors of these Maktabs will gain, Insha-Allah, for tens of millions of Durood Shareef being recited by little pupils every year. There is no institution in this wide world to the best of our knowledge where so much Durood is being recited daily. May Allah Ta’ala accept this humble effort and bestow the enormous thawaab of this effort to the sponsors and may it be a Thawaab-e-Jaariyah for all those who participate in this noble Jihaad. We urge you to make a firm commitment to aid this Waajib Project of the Deen. Abstention from Sin “The way of abstaining from sin is firstly to muster up courage and determination. Then supplicate to Allah Ta’ala for determination and steadfastness in one’s resolve. In addition, request the pious servants of Allah Ta’ala to make Dua for you. Most assuredly, you will gain the courage and determination to be saved from sin.” (Hadhrat Maulana Ashraf Ali Thaanvi) FASTING ON AASHURAA Fasting on the 10th Muharram is Sunnat. However, instead of fasting only on the Day of Aashuraa, the Hadith exhorts that fasting should also be on the 9th or on the 11th. It was the practice of the Yahood to fast on the Day of Aashuraa in commemoration of their freedom from Firaun. Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) ordered that we fast on the 9th and 10th or on the 10th and 11th to avoid resemblance with the Yahood. THE FAST OF AASHURAA Prior to the command to fast in Ramadhaan, fasting on the Day of Aashuraa was compulsory. After fasting was decreed in Ramadhaan, the fast of Aashuraa became Sunnat. However, it is Makrooh to fast only on the 10th day. It has to be joined either with the 9th or the 11th. FASTING P reparing food lavishly on the Day of Aashuraa for the family (wife and children) is also Sunnat. Feasting of the family is not to be understood to mean inviting friends and relatives. It is not an occasion of public feasting.There is also a misconception in some quarters. It is erroneously believed that gifts have to be exchanged on 10th Muharram. This is entirely baseless. There is no substantiation in the Sunnah for the custom of exchanging gifts. The only exhortation of the Hadith is that a man should be somewhat lavish in providing food for his family on the Day of Aashuraa. Increasing or expanding on this is Bid’ah. THIS IS THE UNIVERSITY YOUR DAUGHTER ATTENDS!! Expired condoms scare Grahamstown—Students on the Rhodes University campus were upset after they were given expired condoms at a street party on Valentine’s Day. The party was the main event of the university’s orientation week to welcome first year students to the campus. University spokesman Linda Burton said yesterday she was convinced that there was no malicious intent behind the distribution of the condoms. Ref. The Herald 5/03/03. |